Florida: Person with flamethrower sets fire to Pan-African flag at activist headquarters

[marmar]

(Guardian UK) A person using a flamethrower set fire Saturday to a Pan-African flag flying on a pole outside the headquarters of the Uhuru Movement, a Black international socialist group based in Florida.

Security video released by the group shows the driver of a white Honda sedan pulling up outside the group’s St Petersburg headquarters, removing a flamethrower from the trunk and shooting a tower of fire at the flag flying about 30ft (9 meters) above the ground.

The group said the man stopped when a worker inside the building yelled at him.

The video shows the man putting the flamethrower back in the trunk and then driving away. A photo supplied by the group shows the flag with a large hole. ..............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/02/pan-african-flag-fire-florida

[LoisB]

1. I must really be stupid or sheltered: Where/why/how in the world does a civilian purchase

a flame-thrower?

[Deuxcents]

2. I feel the same. These war weapons seem like they're everywhere

[LoisB]

3. It sure feels that way. It makes you wonder how many of these nuts have bazookas and cannons

in their back yards. In my entire life on this planet, not once did I ever say to myself "I think I need a flame-thrower".